Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49374
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
239
Points per Page
0.029289
Description
Jim, living with his mother and three uncles in the small hamlet of Aliceville, North Carolina, comes of age in the Depression years and begins to realize the largeness of the world outside his happy home.